Description

Director Caveh Zahedi’s I Am A Sex Addict may be Zahedi’s                      most autobiographical and, consequently, narcissistic film                      to date. Previously, when Tripping With Caveh featured                          Zahedi and musician Will Oldham wandering through meadows                      high on LSD, some viewers wondered what the point was. Now,                    “Caveh” relays his history of sex addiction, in                              nauseating detail, before taking wedding vows with his                          third wife to-be. Beginning the tale in Paris, 1984, Zahedi                    narrates the story of Anna, his first true love, Caroline,                      his second love played by actress Rebecca Lord, and the                        destruction of both relationships due to his insatiable                        desire for prostitutes. Speaking directly towards the                          camera or acting out dramatized scenes, Zahedi explains his                    deep-seated psychological needs to gawk at women. When his                      girlfriends repeatedly dump him, he hits rock bottom and                        begins attending Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings. Besides a                      frankly disgusting plot, Zahedi’s experimentalism seems                        pretentious, as he explains, for example, why he casts                          actors before showing them on-screen. Perhaps the unsavory                      topic explored in I Am A Sex Addict is suitable for other                      fellow sex addicts, in a therapeutic sense. Otherwise, the                      question arises throughout: Why should I care? –Trinie                        Dalton